Korean/Words/물

물

The sea ^[1]

Global water cycle

The Pacific Ocean. ^[2]
The world ocean is also collectively known as just "the sea". Being 3,688m deep on average, it covers 71% of Earth's surface, and contains 97% of Earth's water!

Roman: mul
Noun [3] [4]
자연계에 강, 호수, 바다, 지하수 따위의 형태로 널리 분포하는 액체. 순수한 것은 빛깔, 냄새, 맛이 없고 투명하다. 산소와 수소의 화학적 결합물로, 어는점 이하에서는 얼음이 되고 끓는점 이상에서는 수증기가 된다. 공기와 더불어 생물이 살아가는 데 없어서는 안 될 중요한 물질이다.
water
못, 내, 호수, 강, 바다 따위를 두루 이르는 말.
a body of water, eg., pond, lake, brook, river, sea, etc.

Synonyms

바다 (bada, "sea, mere")
호수 (hosu, "lake, mere")
못 (mot, "moat, pond")
시내 (sinae, "brook")
내 (nae, "river")
강 (gang, "river")

Antonyms

불 (bul, "fire" cf. Dutch vuur)
불바다 (bul-bada, lit. "fire sea" cf. Dutch vuurzee)

Compounds

물바다 (-bada, "flood" lit. "water sea" or "sea of water")
바닷물 (badat-, "sea water")
호수물 (hosu-, "lake water")
시냇물 (sinaet-, "brook water")
강물 (gang-, "river water")
눈물 (nun-, "tears")
콧물 (kot-, "snot, snuff, snival, drivel, nose dripping, nose runnings")
큰물 (keun-, "flood")
한물 (han-, "flood")

Relatives

묽다 (mulgda, "to be watery")
무르다 (mureuda, "to be soft, tender, flabby") ^[5]
마르다 (mareuda, "to dry")
미르 (mireu, "dragon")
미리내 (miri-nae, "Milky Way" lit. "dragon river")

Maxims

관해난수 (觀海難水, gwanhaenansu)
To see the sea makes it hard to talk about water.

The more I see the sea, the harder I say water.

Comparatives

sea #Translations ^[6]
Germanic & Latinic	Slavic & Others
Germanic Danish: sø Dutch: meer, zee English: mere, sea Scots: se German: Meer, See Faroese: sjógvur Icelandic: sjór Norwegian: sjø Swedish: sjö Latinic Aragonese: mar Asturian: mar Catalan: mar Corsican: mari French: mer Friulian: mâr Galician: mar Italian: mare Latin: mare Occitan: mar Portuguese: mar Romanian: mare Sardinian: mare Sicilian: mari Spanish: mar Venetian: mar	Slavic Aromanian: mari Belarusian: мо́ра (móra) Bulgarian: море́ (moré) Czech: moře Macedonian: море (more) Polish: morze Russian: мо́ре (móre) Rusyn: мо́ре (móre) Serbo-Croatian: море (more) Slovak: more Slovene: morje Sorbian: mórjo Udmurt: море (more) Ukrainian: мо́ре (móre) Others Breton: mor Cornish: mor Dalmatian: mur Estonian: meri Finnish: meri Irish: muir Karelian: meri Livonian: mer Manx: mooir Sami: mearra Scottish Gaelic: muir Veps: meri Welsh: môr

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Etymology
- (Etymonline) Old English sæ "sheet of water, sea, lake, pool," from Proto-Germanic *saiwa- (...), of unknown origin ...
- (Wiktionary) probably ... from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”) (compare Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”) ... cf. Korean 세다 (se-da, "to be strong, powerful")
- (This project) English sea and the like may not mean "sheet of water" (Etymonline) but "seat of water," hence cognate with See of Holy See, both derived from Latin sedes (“seat”) related to Latin verb sedere (“to sit”).
↑ This largest division of the world ocean covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of its total surface area, making it 3% larger than all of Earth's land area combined.
↑ https://ko.dict.naver.com/#/search?query=물
↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/물
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표준국어사전
1. 여리고 단단하지 않다.
2. 물기가 많아서 단단하지 않다.
↑ European cognates for "sea" is spread so wide.

[1] Etymology
(Etymonline) Old English sæ "sheet of water, sea, lake, pool," from Proto-Germanic *saiwa- (...), of unknown origin ...

(Wiktionary) probably ... from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”) (compare Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”) ... cf. Korean 세다 (se-da, "to be strong, powerful")

(This project) English sea and the like may not mean "sheet of water" (Etymonline) but "seat of water," hence cognate with See of Holy See, both derived from Latin sedes (“seat”) related to Latin verb sedere (“to sit”).

[2] (Etymonline) Old English sæ "sheet of water, sea, lake, pool," from Proto-Germanic *saiwa- (...), of unknown origin ...

[3] (Wiktionary) probably ... from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”) (compare Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”) ... cf. Korean 세다 (se-da, "to be strong, powerful")

[4] (This project) English sea and the like may not mean "sheet of water" (Etymonline) but "seat of water," hence cognate with See of Holy See, both derived from Latin sedes (“seat”) related to Latin verb sedere (“to sit”).

[2] This largest division of the world ocean covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of its total surface area, making it 3% larger than all of Earth's land area combined.

[3] ttps://ko.dict.naver.com/#/search?query=물

[4] ttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/물

[5] 표준국어사전
여리고 단단하지 않다.

물기가 많아서 단단하지 않다.

[9] 여리고 단단하지 않다.

[10] 물기가 많아서 단단하지 않다.

[6] European cognates for "sea" is spread so wide.

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